This DIY Rig Makes Sharpening Your Bandsaw a Breeze

Anything worth doing is worth doing right, and anything worth doing right is worth building a machine that can do it right for you. So if you have a bandsaw that you need to sharpen from time to time, don't go through the trouble of pulling out the Dremel and doing it freehand. Instead, go through the trouble of building this rig to do it for you.

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The premise, as you can see, is fairly straightforward. The motion that moves the Dremel toward and away from the bandsaw blade also powers a mechanism that ratchets the blade up one tooth with each push. So long as your Dremel and the ratcheting mechanism are properly spaced at a fixed distance, the rest of the work is just some in and out.

If you are not sharpening your bandsaw all that often, it might be hard to justify spending the time on this project just for the sake of efficiency, but building a machine to do your work for you is its own reward.

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